How to use Solarized theme in Emacs

by Milosz Galazka on June 9, 2014

You may have noticed that I became a fan of solarized color palette by Ethan Schoonover used for terminal and gui applications. You will therefore not be too surprised when I describe how to install it and use in Emacs text editor.

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Notes

Please notice that I am currently using the following Emacs version from the official Debian repository.

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 23.4.1
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.